Temple of Apollo at Delphi Rock of the Oracle Delphi, on the slopes of Mount Parnassus, offers one of the most striking natural settings in Greece and the dramatic scenery reflects the ancient myths associated with the site. Here Apollo had fought and vanquished the giant snake Python, a po...
Emergence of the Nation. India has a history going back thousands of years and a prehistory going back hundreds of thousands of years. There was a long phase of Paleolithic hunting and gathering cultures parallel in time and characteristics with the Paleolithic peoples of Europe and East Asia....
The Greeks advanced their phalanx (a wall of shields & spears) slowly until they came within range of the Persian archers, when they broke into a run. The arrows were ineffective at close range compared to the Greek spears. Soon they retreated, but the Greeks ran them down them from ...
after 1978, Peoples Temple appears as a prototype for new religions, as "the cultic psychological patterns evidenced in manic proportions at Jonestown are present to some degree in every cult" (Martin, The Kingdom of the Cults, 37)... E Barker - 《Annual Review of Sociology》 被引量: 49...
Significance of the Great Wall of China The Great Wall of China is an ancient series of walls and fortifications, totaling more than 13,000 miles in length, located in northern China. Perhaps the most recognizable symbol of China and its long and vivid history, the Great Wall was originally...
time, some people say it’s unlikely that they used them to keep track of time permanently. The sights show that Neolithic peoples had a concrete concept of time passing and knew that cycles were predictable over time. Some sights indicate an ability to measure the passing of weeks or ...
TempleHistoryyinThe White Pagoda at Miaoying Temple,designed by Nepalese architect Amiko 750 years ago,bears images of various cultures and carries emotions of different peoples,witnessing changes over centuries.An Sheng中外文化交流:英文版
This culture marks some of the earliest examples of agriculture in Upper Egypt and most of its relics come from cemeteries. These cemeteries show signs ofsocial divisionsbecause wealthy graves were in one area. All the bodies were in the same position and faced in the same direction. Some exam...
The attack on the Golden Temple, the "Holy of Holies" of the Sikh religion in Amritsar, India, in June 1984 found the world's attention on a long‐simmering but low‐keyed conflict—the fight of the Sikh separatists for an independent Punjab, renamed Khalistan. The Sikh struggle has all...